08-07-2019, 07:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-08-2019, 12:41 PM by Crispianus.)
Check out the construction of the "persian" shoes in "Leatherwork from Elephantine"(you can read it for free) if you havn't got this book I would suggest at least getting the PDF as its usefull and only €9.95, see page 104 on for the lacing construction of which there are a few variants but generally this is it:
In effect your putting in diagonal slots VVVVVVV in the leather to take the lace, these slots are made as you need them not all first but a few at a time.
Open each new cut slot up as you go with a blunt spike and feed the thin cut end of the thong through and pull tight, being carefull not to break them though its a easy to repair a break or add another thong in.
I dont think these shoes would be made on a last but most likely held together with some tacking.
It is in effect a method similar to lacing the layers of Roman sandals together and other parts of roman shoes including Caligae probably other leatherwork too, but clearly much more ancient
There is also a complete example of this type in "Catalogue des Chaussures de l'Antiquite Egyptian" page 193, No 123 this appears to be the same as the shoes from Elephantine and using the same lacing method, provenance: none given, date: Ptolemaic (likely an estimate).
Neither this or the turnshoe technique is a normal egyptian method at the dates in question, its possible that the toggles associated with it are from another shoe entirely, and that this is another example similar to the shoes found at Elephantine, however some of those shoes also have toggles but in a different type of closure.
In anycase one of the pairs of luxor shoes is also repaired in a similar fashion to the Elephantine shoes and had been completely altered from its original turn shoe constructon, although remains of it were still visible.
The Luxor shoes themselves are attributed to the Ptolemaic Era but my guess would be that this is flexible particularly considering the similarity's with the shoes from Persepolis.
In effect your putting in diagonal slots VVVVVVV in the leather to take the lace, these slots are made as you need them not all first but a few at a time.
Open each new cut slot up as you go with a blunt spike and feed the thin cut end of the thong through and pull tight, being carefull not to break them though its a easy to repair a break or add another thong in.
I dont think these shoes would be made on a last but most likely held together with some tacking.
It is in effect a method similar to lacing the layers of Roman sandals together and other parts of roman shoes including Caligae probably other leatherwork too, but clearly much more ancient
There is also a complete example of this type in "Catalogue des Chaussures de l'Antiquite Egyptian" page 193, No 123 this appears to be the same as the shoes from Elephantine and using the same lacing method, provenance: none given, date: Ptolemaic (likely an estimate).
Neither this or the turnshoe technique is a normal egyptian method at the dates in question, its possible that the toggles associated with it are from another shoe entirely, and that this is another example similar to the shoes found at Elephantine, however some of those shoes also have toggles but in a different type of closure.
In anycase one of the pairs of luxor shoes is also repaired in a similar fashion to the Elephantine shoes and had been completely altered from its original turn shoe constructon, although remains of it were still visible.
The Luxor shoes themselves are attributed to the Ptolemaic Era but my guess would be that this is flexible particularly considering the similarity's with the shoes from Persepolis.
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
